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Posted: 1:00 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012

Today in Rock - Sept 12

Neil Peart of Rush is born (1952).

Gerry Beckley of America is born (1952)

Led Zeppelin surviving members Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones announce they would be coming together and performing a star-studded tribute concert in London at the O2 area. The concert would play tribute to the late Atlantic Records founds Ahmet Ertegun. The place of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, who had died in 1980, would be his son Jason. All profits from this show would go towards scholarships in Ertegun’s name in the UK, US and Turkey, which is the country where Ertegun was born (2007)

Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie announce they will no longer perform with Fleetwood Mac (1990)

A very detailed report on the death of Elvis Presley is aired on ABC’s “20/20.” The report raised so many unanswered questions and doubts that the official case concerning his death was reopened (1980)

 
 
 

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